I’m confused about how your takeaway is that AI is intelligent when the AI’s own description of itself included:
It seems your takeaway is that AI is the same intelligence as humans because of the shared ability to identify patterns, but AI lacks those other elements of consciousness such as self-awareness, self-referentiality, a conscious awareness of the world around them, and the ability to directly consider the world via sense-data experience.
Perhaps one day those could be programmed in, but at this stage AI is confined to being a complex database of previously written human works. Certainly a useful and substantial accomplishment, certainly capable of things no human is, though the same could have been said of a computer from 20 years ago in terms of memory storage.
Last night I was reflecting on an observation about the linguistic nature of reality and it hit me that only our reality is linguistic, not actuality. The consciously-apperceived actual world is far more than linguistic. AI is forever trapped in that linguistic reality, parroting the ideas we have conceived of, and of course to us it seems so intelligent. But it is only repeating back to us what the mass of humanity have written out.
Similarly, reality for humans is limited to that linguistic frontier - playing with and rearranging abstract concepts in an ultimately vain attempt to understand. It’s only when the self exits the scene that the full potential of intelligence comes to the fore.